The Thirteen ColoniesCKHG Reader (Core Knowledge History and Geography)

From the CORE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION which brought you the popular What Your Grader Needs to Know series. THE THIRTEEN COLONIES explores how three regions of English colonies in North AmericaSouthern Middle and New Englanddeveloped differently. Early chapters focus on Jamestown labor by indentured servants and a growing reliance on enslaved workers. The book explores how religious motives influenced the founding of the New England colonies by the Pilgrims and Puritans as well as the motives behind the founding of the Middle Colonies with a focus on the Dutch in New York and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Some chapters incorporate primary source documents and cross-curricular art and literature connections including historically-informed imaginative narratives. Paperback. 111 pages. Part of the CORE KNOWLEDGE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY (CKHG) series in world and American history and geography integrating topics in civics and the arts. CKHG books offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations maps vocabulary sidebars and a glossary. Related materials (Teacher Guides and Timeline Cards) are also published by the Core Knowledge Foundation. In general CKHG books are appropriate for young readers from the upper elementary grades through middle school.